William McKinney was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, but he grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania with a family of 6 brothers and 4 sisters. They grew up in what William calls a very large with a total of eight bedrooms. His dad worked various jobs while his mother was a housekeeper in the home. His father served in WW1. On June 6, 1943, William McKinney went into the United Stated Military. After being drafted into the military he was sent to Alabama to the base battalion because he scored the highest in his group on the communication tests he had to take going into the military this would be Morse code. After Alabama he went to Mississippi and then to New York and then finally to Liverpool, England. There he said the Germans had an 88 which is huge cannon, and when these cannon struck land you would see bodies fly everywhere in the air and all of the Kernels would cry like babe when firing these cannons and being killed by fellow soldiers that had switched sides. William was then stationed in Belgium at Buchenwald. This is where William saw thousands of Jewish refugees; they wore bluish/grayish pajamas. Williams stated that the refugees would look very mal nourished. While he was there he met a couple boys and during supper, William would go back for seconds and thirds and take it to these boys to eat. He was lampshades that were made out of human skin, pickled hearts and brains in labs. William asked the boys what happened to their families and he got out of them that they watched their parents get burned alive. William at one point in the video says that he wanted to adopt the two boys in the camp that he gave food to. But after the war was over he never saw the boys again but he hopes that the boys made it through the camp alive.
“It is time that we come to our senses and eliminate bloodshed because war is hell. War is horrible.”
“I saw pits where they march’ em up and shoot ’em and fall over in the pit”
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